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Collaborative drug therapy management protocols are defined and written agreements between pharmacists and providers that allow pharmacists to optimize medication therapy management for individual patients.

Drug therapy problems, which are undesirable events that involve medications that can ultimately interfere with a patient’s therapeutic goals, are a major cause of morbidity, mortality, and hospitalizations in older adults.

Cataracts are the leading cause of preventable blindness globally and are responsible for approximately 50% of worsening bilateral vision cases among Caucasians, Hispanics, and African Americans in the United States.

Immunoglobulin light-chain amyloidosis (AL amyloid­osis), one of the most common forms of amyloidosis, is a rare and typically fatal disease caused by misfolded light chains—protein chains formed by plasma cells that misfold into an abnormal shape—that form soluble toxic aggregates and deposit fibrils (amyloid) in organs.

In the United States, more than 80% of all patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) initiate dialysis with hemodialysis, and current reports indicate that this trend has changed little over the past 2 decades.

For much of modern history, physicians have made decisions about patient care by consulting their peers and by using rule-based approaches. Specialists have been consulted throughout history and became a necessity in the 1800s, as medicine became more complex.